June 2009
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Rah Rah — Duet for Emmylou and the Grievous...
“Therein lies the uneasy truth: In a major international crisis, one of the prime...”
– Caroline McCarthy, CNET: With Iran crisis, Twitter’s youth is over (via peterfeld)
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except one has a good theme song.
synecdoche:
i never realized that the o.c. is just the white, unfunny version of fresh prince of bel-air.
“I have noticed that it’s of no great use telling myself, when I go online, that I should muster my willpower against the sirens of amusement, distraction, and curiosity. I do better at not spending too much time at my computer if I remind myself how comparatively shallow and irregular my enjoyment of the internet is. The truth is that we are often bored to death by what we find online—but this is...
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An extreme example of a high concept film is Snakes on a Plane which put its entire premise in the movie title itself.
— Wikipedia
I just realized the term “high concept” means the exact opposite of what I had always thought.
